Micranthes hieraciifolia

(Waldstein & Kitaibel ex Willdenow) Haworth

Saxifrag. Enum., 45. 1821 (as hieracifolia) ,.

Common names: Hawkweed-leaved saxifrage
Basionym: Saxifraga hieraciifolia Waldstein & Kitaibel ex Willdenow Sp. Pl. 2: 641. 1799 (as hieracifolia)
Synonyms: Saxifraga hieraciifolia var. angusticapsula Hultén Saxifraga hieraciifolia var. rufopilosa Hultén
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 66. Mentioned on page 51, 65, 67.

Plants mostly solitary, with short caudices, sometimes rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole sometimes indistinct, flattened, 2–4 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 2–6 cm, ± fleshy, base cuneate to slightly attenuate, margins usually ± evenly serrulate to denticulate, ciliate, surfaces sparsely to densely hairy and sparsely stipitate-glandular. Inflorescences 30+-flowered, constricted, spikelike thyrses, 7–30 cm, tangled-hairy proximally, densely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular distally. Flowers: sepals spreading to reflexed, triangular to ovate; petals dark reddish purple, not spotted, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, slightly clawed, 1.5–3 mm, equaling sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior. Capsules reddish to purple, valvate. 2n = 112, 120.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Wet, mossy tundra, streamsides, ledges, crevices
Elevation: 0-2000 m

Distribution

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Greenland, B.C., N.W.T., Nunavut, Yukon, Alaska, Mont., Europe, Asia.

Discussion

In British Columbia, Micranthes hieraciifolia is disjunct between the far north and the Okanagan-Thompson Plateau in the south (S. A. Harris 2003).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Luc Brouillet +  and Patrick E. Elvander† +
(Waldstein & Kitaibel ex Willdenow) Haworth +
Saxifraga hieraciifolia +
Hawkweed-leaved saxifrage +
Greenland +, B.C. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Mont. +, Europe +  and Asia. +
0-2000 m +
Wet, mossy tundra, streamsides, ledges, crevices +
Flowering summer. +
Saxifrag. Enum., +
Saxifraga hieraciifolia var. angusticapsula +  and Saxifraga hieraciifolia var. rufopilosa +
Micranthes hieraciifolia +
Micranthes +
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